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Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013
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Congressmen Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Pete King (R-NY) are sponsoring H.R. 1565, the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013. This legislation mirrors the Senate's Toomey-Manchin amendment and would expand background checks to those who purchase firearms through private sales at "commercial venues" like gun shows and websites. As you know, such privates sales are completely unregulated in many states. This poses a direct threat to public safety.

We need to build support for the Thompson-King bill in order to pressure the House Leadership to bring it to the floor for a vote. Please call your U.S. Representative TODAY and tell him/her to sign on to H.R. 1565 as a co-sponsor. If you do not know who your Representative is, click here.

  The safety of our families and communities depend on YOUR activism. It's critical that you pressure your lawmakers to take a leadership role in the campaign to expand background checks. Please do your part and call your Representative today!

  I remain confident that the background check bill is not done in this Congress. Working together, we can get new votes on this life-saving legislation. Thank you for working with us to make that happen.

#Peter King#Mike Thompson#House of Representatives#Legislation#gun control#crime#tumblrbomb#activism
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Michele Bachmann Has Gone Too Far! Tell John Boehner She Should Be Removed from the Intelligence Committee Immediately!
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In service to ugly Islamophobic fear mongering, Rep. Michele Bachmann continues unabated in her unfounded and irresponsible attacks on dedicated public servants -- a witch hunt that has targeted Huma Abedin, a key aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and now includes allegations that President Obama may be aiding the rise of global Sharia law.

Conspiracy theories and religious McCarthyism should have no place in our government, especially in the House Intelligence Committee, on which Rep. Bachmann sits.

Please remove Rep. Bachmann from her seat on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence immediately. Members of the House Intelligence Committee are entrusted with classified information that affects the safety and security of all Americans. That information should not be in the hands of anyone with such a disregard for honesty, misunderstanding of national security, and lack of respect for his or her fellow public servants.

#Michele Bachman#Foreign Affairs#Minnesota#bigotry#politics#House of Representatives#congress#activism
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Lawrence Lessig: Corrupt Congress a Farm League for K Street Lobbyists (by ForaTv)

You can actually do something about how screwed up our government is. It's obvious to many that money is the top problem. There are people organizing to do something about it:

This isn't a partisan movement - this is about people who believe that thier government should be responsive to thier needs and requests without having to pay for it beyond paying taxes.

Any of these groups should be a better use of your time than just complaining about it.

Source: youtube.com
#government#campaign donations#lobbying#House of Representatives#U.S. Senate#money in politics#Lessig
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John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich. The biographer who somewhere down the line tackles the question of Boehner's legacy will do well to simply throw out any references to party affiliation, because the thing that has made Boehner who he is — the thing that has finally lifted him to the apex of legislative power in America — has almost nothing to do with his being a Republican.

Matt Taibbi: The Crying Shame of John Boehner Rolling Stone Politics

Source: twitter.com
#John Boehner#Speaker of The House#G.O.P.#House of Representatives#Politics#OH-08
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Net Neutrality: The White Man's Burden?

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vruz

US 'open internet' bill shot down

vruz: fuck you republicans. fuck you republican voting idiots. fuck you.

where's your libertarianism now?

Partisan politics is being blamed for killing off US legislation to protect the "net neutrality" that sees all web traffic treated equally.
Democrat Henry Waxman said he failed to garner the necessary Republican support for his net neutrality bill.
The bill aimed to stop ISPs from acting as online gatekeepers controlling the content flowing through their pipes.
"This development is a loss for consumers and a gain only for the extremes," said Mr Waxman.
"The bottom line is we must protect the open internet. If Congress can't act, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) must."
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diegueno

Something like this has been in the works for over 4 months. As far as I can tell, this un-vote is the other shoe dropping. It's either misinformed or ingenuous to blame the GOP alone for it's failure (the list of those same signers is at the end of this petition). Take a look at that list: you know what they have in common? They are mostly Black or Latino and they come from middle to low income districts with constituents of people of color - communities where internet penetration is probably not as great as your own.

In the mid 1980s, I saw Angela Y. Davis give a speech where she repeated a thesis of her book Women, Race and Class that one of the reasons that the feminist movement failed in the 1970s (after all, how close are we to having an Equal Rights Amendment added to the U.S. Constitution now?) was that feminism was left to be the domain of college educated white women for the most part. And so it has followed since that The Left (nor Libertarians as it concerns liberties) has not sought out the participation of communities of color. With one notable exception, it has followed that computer geeks have not made computers something to be used in low education, low income communities as a way to build skills and income (that's another rant of mine).

When people of color are unlikely to participate in elections and geeks don't see that developing the internet is a political act, you're not going to see citizens working in their own interests, never mind working in coalition. When geeks look at politics, most are blind to the unevenness of knowledge that they have, they seem to have trouble with fuzzy systems like economies, societies and politics. Most that I've encountered have defaulted to taking a laissez faire attitude toward public policy whether it serves their best interests or not.

Forgive me if these terms I use are too pejorative, but when you don't go to the ghetto or the barrio to find other citizens with common concerns, you're just not going to get them on your side. The same happens when you neither share nor develop resources that you have but they don't. When something like more linux desktops are set up on second-hand computer and these computers have access to internet based resources to serve these communities, net neutrality could mean something to people of color. But that is not the way it is today.

#house of representatives#internet#net neutrality#politics#things that white people care about#tech
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tell Rep. Steve King (IA-05) to debate his opponent
www.thepetitionsite.com
Steve King has consistently refused to debate his opponent in every election. Matt Campbell followed the proper procedure to request a debate. Mr. King ignored all written and telephone contact. When confronted by Mr. Campbell at a townhall meeting, Steve King again refused, stating his opponent was "unworthy."
We believe that debates between candidates is an integral part of our democratic process. To deny the citizens of Iowa of witnessing a true debate, is to deny us our right to a fair, and proper democratic process. Steve King, we the undersigned, your constituents, those who have supported you in the past, and those who don't, all agree on one thing: You must debate.

P. S. Steve King is a special project of mine.

#Steve King#Iowa#republican#debate#campaigns#House of Representatives
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